Not a single one of the Democrats who voted against the health care reform bill has a progressive legislative rating about 50 percent.

The retirement of so many Blue Dogs in this election cycle suggests that their opportunistic political strategy of voting like Republicans has not been sustainable.

Congressional candidate Ken Nadler may not win the election in 2010, but he could be the deciding force that knocks Blue Dog Marion Berry out of office, if he can peel away enough progressive votes in protest of Berry’s many efforts to defeat Democratic legislation by cooperating with congressional Republicans.

How can Vic Snyder get away with slacking off on the introduction of legislation to fix what ails this country? How can John Boozman get away with telling struggling Americans in the midst of the greatest recession of a generation to go to hell? How does Marion Berry manage to get re-elected after getting caught [...]

Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]

Apparently, pharmacists dominated personal contributions to Arkansas Representative Marion Berry’s campaign with simultaneous bundling associated with at least one PAC. These contributions came while Marion Berry was shepherding legislation through Congress of financial benefit to pharmacists. Democratic Radio Address by Rep. Marion Berry, March 2006: Today’s seniors helped this country through the Depression, fought two [...]

If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.

You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]

Why did Arkansas Democrats Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, Mike Ross and Vic Snyder vote to betray American liberty and pass the Republican Protect America Act? Were the Arkansas Democrats blackmailed? Was there a quid pro quo? Perhaps the Arkansas Democrats already involved in the spy program in some way, even before it was legalized. I don’t know. Help me understand how this could have happened.